The influence of Tatar culture on Kazakhs in the process of transition to a sedentary lifestyle

The scientific relevance of the article is due to the possibilities of considering the processes of integration of Kazakh society into the all-Russian space through the interaction with various social strata of the Muslim Tatars of the Volga-Ural region and Siberia. The study of the role of the Tatars in the implementation of the cultural mission on the outskirts of Russia has not lost its relevance today. It is in demand not only from the point of view of ensuring Russia's geopolitical interests in the Central Asian region, but also in terms of preserving historically established cultural, economic and spiritual ties. The article is devoted to the study of the influence of the Tatar agricultural, morals and manners culture on the Kazakhs moving to a settled lifestyle. The leading approach to the study of this problem was the comparative-contrastive method of research, which made it possible to comprehensively disclose the elements of the Kazakh and Tatar morals and manners cultures in a comparative sense, as well as the retrospective method, that traces the past events, contributing to the most complete image of the issue. As a result of the study, it was revealed that in the process of transition to agriculture, the Kazakhs had chosen the Tatar but not the Russian approach. The Kazakhs’ lifestyle became closely connected with Muslim culture, which was significantly influenced by Muslim Tatars, despite the efforts of Orthodox missionaries to convert the Kazakhs to Orthodoxy. The materials of the article can be useful in compiling museum expositions of an ethnographic nature, as well as for teaching special courses in higher educational institutions with historic specialties.